Display apparatus.



E. F. CANNON. DI$PLAY APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1908.

920,538. Patented May 4,1909. I

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DISPLAY A F PORTLAND, OREGON.

PPARATUS.

No. 920,538. Specification of Application filed May 21,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. CANNON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State ofOregon, have invented a new and Improved Display Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to display appara tus, and more particularly toapparatus for exhibiting wares or merchandise, and having rotatableshelves arranged in cylindrical cases, the sides of which aretransparent and are slidable, and having, further, flexible travelingmembers arranged upon u rights of the frame of the device and movab ycarrying other shelves.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensivedisplay apparatus which has shelves for carrying and exhibiting waresand merchandise, which are movable in diflerent directions and indifferent ways, to dis lay the exhibited articles in a plurality of fasions.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts tobe more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both views, and in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation of the display apparatus, showing parts thereof in verticalsection; and Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Before proceeding to a more detailed explanation of my invention, itshould be clearly understood that the same is particularly useful inconnectionwith show cases for stores and the like, though it can also bead vantageously applied to other structures used in displaying orexhibiting merchandise or other articles.

I provide a plurality of shelves which are movable and serve to carrythe goods displayed. The shelves can be actuated in any convenient way,by hand or by means of suitable driving mechanism such as an electricmotor.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 10 re resents the base ofthe apparatus upon whic are mounted uprights 11, near the ends of thebase, and intermediate the ends. The uprights consist preferably of ILetters Patent.

1908. Serial No. 134,0(39.

Patented May 4, 1909.

' beams as is shown most clearly in Fig. 2. At the upper end theuprights 11 carry a top or cover 12. The base and the top 12 may befashioned from any suitable material such as wood or the like. Above thebase 10 the central I-bcam carries a floor 13 of wood or the like.

Upon the base 11, and at the under side of the floor 13, intermediatethe uprights, are provided bearings 1 1 in which are j ournaledrotatable columns 15. These have collars 16 which carry laterallyextending shelves 17 for displaying articles. These shelves 17 arerotatable, as the columns are so mounted for this purpose. The base andthe floor have the extremities rounded and form the ends of twosubstantially cylindrical cases in which the shelves 17 are positioned.The sides of the cylindrical cases are formed by suitably curved doors18 provided with portions 19 of glass or other transparent material. Thedoors are arranged to slide in circular guideways 20 of the base and thefloor, and are arranged in pairs which are concentric as is shown mostclearly in Fig. 2, whereby they can be arranged to encompass the shelvesor can be displaced to permit access to be had to the shelves.

The outer uprights 11, at the inner sides have curved walls 21, whilethe central up right 11 at the opposite sides has similar walls 21. Theuprights carry blocks 22 preferably adjustable longitudinally of theuprights and forming bearings for sprockets 23. Flexible travelingmembers 24 consisting preferably of chains are mounted upon thesprockets. Shelves 25 having hangers 26 are secured by means of thelatter, to links of opposite chains, and can thus travel with theciains. The shelves 25 are pivotally supported upon the chains and tendgravitationally to maintain normal positions. They serve, like theshelves 17, for the display of articles to be exhibited.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. In display a paratus, a base, spaced uprights upon said ass, a topcarried by said uprights, blocks adjustable longitudinally of saiduprights, sprockets mounted upon said blocks, chains arranged to travelover said sprockets, shelves pivotally carried between opposite chains,and laterally extending walls carried by said uprights and arranged toproject beyond said chains.

2. In display apparatus, a base, spaced In testimony whereof I havesigned my uprights carried by said base, blocks aclname to thisspecification in the presence of 10 justable longitudinally of saiduprights, rotwo subscribing Witnesses. tat-able members carried by saidblocks, entl- EDWARD w SAN NON less members arranged to travel upon saidrotatable members, carriers connecting said i endless members, andlaterally extending curved Walls proj eating b eyond said uprights.

Vv itnesses JOHN BRACHVOGEL, JOHN P. DAVIS.

